HANOI, 8th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is joining international efforts to protect the blue ocean in response to World Ocean Day 2022, Vietnam...

Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is building a secret naval base in Cambodia as Beijing seeks to expand its influence in the Indo-Pacific region. The base buildings are at a northern part of Cambodia's Ream Naval ...

Hanoi [Vietnam], June 8 (ANI): India and Vietnam on Wednesday signed a "Joint Vision Statement" for Defence Partnership towards the year 2030 to enhance the scope and scale of defence cooperation between the countries. This key vision statement was s...

© Provided by Xinhua The tightened monetary policy is aimed at reducing the amount of money in circulation and curbing the spiraling inflation rate. Laos recorded an inflation rate of 9.9 percent in April.VIENTIANE, June 8 (Xinhua) --

Once among the world's worst nations for illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, Vietnam is battling to redeem itself after a yellow card warning. Rogue fishers could see Vietnam barred from the European Union seafood market. Despite making

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Some localities in southern Vietnam have witnessed an increasing number of dengue fever cases in the past few weeks, local media reported on Tuesday. Ho Chi Minh City remained the hotspot with more than 10,000 cases and seve...

HANOI -- Some localities in southern Vietnam have witnessed an increasing number of dengue fever cases in the past few weeks, local media reported on Tuesday. Ho Chi Minh City remained the hotspot with more than 10,000 cases and seven deaths so far t...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): Indian men's team midfielder Anirudh Thapa urged his teammates to put in their quality in the team's performance to elevate the overall level as they begin the third round of AFC Asian Cup qualifiers again...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): India football head coach Igor Stimac believes his team are fully prepared and is hopeful of qualifying for the AFC Asian Cup finals as they take on Cambodia in the third round of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup Qu...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): With an eye on the next three matches to secure a spot at the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, Indian National team defender Sandesh Jhingan believes India needs to be a regular in Asia's showpiece football tournament,...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): As the 'City of Joy' gears up to host the Team India in their first match of the Asian Cup Qualifiers Group D matches at the VYBK in Kolkata, head coach Igor Stimac averred that the 'passion from the stand...

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 960 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, up by 158 from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 41 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi wa...

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent over 1.4 billion U.S. dollars importing evidence-based medicines in the first five months of this year, up 20.7 percent from the same period last year, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade...

Beijing is looking to expand its influence in the Indo-Pacific by establishing a naval facility in Cambodia, the paper claimsChina is building a naval base for its military in Cambodia, with both Beijing and Phnom Penh going to great lengths to conce...

HANOI, 7th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam International Defence Expo 2022 is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in December. According to Vietnam ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia has become a state of COVID-zero after the last patient recovered, according to a health ministry's statement on Tuesday. The country reported no new cases of COVID-19 for 31 days straight, the statement said, adding that since...

Washington [US], June 7 (ANI): China is building a naval facility in Cambodia for military use, the second such overseas outpost and its first in the strategically significant Indo-Pacific region. The military presence will be on the northern portion...

The Biden administration announced Monday that it would waive tariffs on solar panels imported to the United States from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam for 24 months, reducing uncertainty for the U.S. solar energy companies that had been sp...

PHNOM PENH, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has become a state of COVID-zero after the last patient recovered, according to a health ministry's statement on Tuesday. The country reported no new cases of COVID-19 for 31 days straight, the statement said, ...

Indonesia may be the world's fourth most populous nation - with more than 270 million people - but Australian news coverage of it typically involves three things: beef, boats and Bali.Anthony Albanese's visit to Indonesia in his third week as prime m...

SYDNEY -- Australia's central bank announced on Tuesday a back-to-back rate hike in two consecutive months, lifting interest rate by 0.5 percentage point to 0.85 percent in a bid to relieve the country's growing inflation. "Inflation in Australia has...

BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The United States has tasted the bitter fruit of hyperinflation, which has stayed above 6 percent since the beginning of this year. While attributable to the sharp rise in global energy, food and commodity prices caused by...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): Indian men's football team is all set to start off their third round of AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers against Cambodia on June 8 at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. Ranked higher than Cambodia, the Blue Tigers...

Washington [US], June 6 (ANI): A large international study found that on average 31.4 per cent of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries. The result, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, revealed inequality ...

washington - President Joe Biden waived tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations for two years and invoked the Defense Production Act to spur solar panel manufacturing at home, the White House said on Monday, confirming a Reuters rep...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): An opportunity to don the blue at what is often hailed as the 'Mecca of Indian football', the Salt Lake Stadium has Indian national team forward Liston Colaco raring to go as the Blue Tigers face Cambodia ...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 802 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, up by 117 from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. Among the new infections, four were imported cases and the rest were domestically transmitted cases reported in 4...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): The last time the Blue Tigers played in India, and in front of the fans was in Kolkata, in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers at the VYBK, in October 2019. The period in between has been a lull with ...

SYDNEY -- A new report from Australia's peak competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has shown that Australians have lost more than double to scams in the first four months of 2022 than the previous year. The...

By Payal MehtaNew Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday called upon the newly elected legislators from Manipur to adopt a public first" policy and underlined the importance of taking all stakeholders on board while formula...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam imported roughly 3.1 million tons of plastic worth over 5.5 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months of this year, down 0.6 percent in volume and up 9.7 percent in value year on year, the Ministry of Industry an...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent more than 5.4 billion U.S. dollars importing over 5.1 million tons of steel and iron in the first five months of this year, up 17.1 percent in value and down 14.3 percent in volume year on year, data from the V...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam earned more than 14.9 billion U.S. dollars from exporting textiles and garments in the first five months of this year, up 21.7 percent from the same period last year, according to the country's Ministry of Industry a...

By Lee Kah WhyeSingapore, June 6 (ANI): The last few months have not been good for startups and their venture capital (VC) backers. Growth stocks like Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing and food delivery company Grab, ecommerce giant Sea Limited, ...

HANOI, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 685 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 196 from Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted cases reported in 36 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese c...

New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is all set to embark on a three-day visit to Vietnam from 8-10 June to hand over twelve high-speed guard boats constructed under India's USD 100 million Defence Line of Credit. During hi...

New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be on an official visit to Vietnam between June 8-10 at the invitation of Vietnam's Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang. Singh will start his visit by paying respect...

PHNOM PENH, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Polls closed in the fifth commune elections in Cambodia on Sunday, a National Election Committee (NEC) member said. "All 23,602 polling stations across the country closed as planned at 3 p.m. local time," NEC member Dim...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 5 (ANI): With the AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers near, the news that there is no shortage of tickets on June 8, 11, and 14 is very exciting for the Indian Football community. The two local boys in the Blue Ti...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodians voted in local polls on Sunday as a revived opposition party attempted to dent Prime Minister Hun Sen's decades-long grip on power ahead of national elections next year.Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving lea...

ZHYTOMYR, UKRAINE - As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next grave. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, it won't be empty ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodians headed to the polls Sunday in local elections that are their first chance to vote since the ruling party of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen swept a 2018 general election that was widely criticized as unfair.Hun S...

KANDAL, Cambodia, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The fifth commune elections kicked off in Cambodia on Sunday after a two-week peaceful election campaign to choose commune chiefs and councilors for 1,652 communes. A total of 23,602 polling stations opened at 7:0...

HANOI, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 881 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down 158 from Friday, the Ministry of Health said. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 36 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained t...

PHNOM PENH, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia exported 149,447 tons of milled rice to China in the first five months of 2022, up 23.6 percent over the same period last year, the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) said on Saturday. China remained the top buyer...

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- In 1972, the United Nations designated June 5 as World Environment Day to foster environmental awareness and prompt action. China, the second-largest economy in the world, has celebrated the annual event with solid steps i...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 4 (ANI): As the countdown for the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers begins, Indian skipper Sunil Chhetri said he has always felt at home while in Kolkata. Team India is currently in Kolkata for the final round of AFC Asian ...

© Provided by Xinhua During the "Doan Ngo" Festival, also known as Double Fifth or Dragon Boat Festival, Vietnamese families buy a lot of things, such as chickens, fresh summer fruits and flowers, fermented sticky rice, and different kinds of cakes ...

Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): Quad -- a "force for good"-- with the help of its maritime initiative, Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA), is eyeing to combat China in its expansionist ambitions in the South and East China Sea where the co...

VIENTIANE, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Third Ordinary Session of the National Assembly (Ninth Legislature) of Laos will be opened on June 13 and will last through July 8, Secretary of the National Assembly Pingkham Lasasima has told media. The three-week ...

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Sitting in a 4-square meter room of a boarding house with sheet metal rooftops, kidney patient Nguyen Thi Oanh was enjoying a bowl of fermented sticky rice on a scorching summer day. The fermented sticky rice the middle-aged...

Washington [US], June 3 (ANI): US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit South Korea, the Philippines, Laos, and Vietnam on June 5-14 to follow up on recent summits between the United States and Asian allies and the launch of the Indo-Pac...

BERLIN-- A train derailed Friday near the Alpine ski town Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the German federal state of Bavaria, killing at least three persons, according to a report of local media NTV. Several people were injured in the accident, and some o...

YANGON -- Myanmar kicked off its vaccination drive for the children aged five to 12 years old at schools across the country on Thursday, state-run television channel MRTV reported. In the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw, 109,682 school children aged 5 an...

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent over 6.5 billion U.S. dollars on cloth imports in the first five months of this year, posting a rise of 10.9 percent year on year, according to the General Statistics Office on Friday. Between January and May, ...

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam exported nearly 7 billion U.S. dollars worth of wood and wood products in the first five months of this year, up 4.7 percent year on year, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Friday. In May alone,...

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam posted a budget collection of 806.4 trillion Vietnamese dongs (around 35 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of this year, up 18.7 percent year on year, the country's Ministry of Finance said on Friday. Do...

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,039 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, down by 49 from Thursday, according to its Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 46 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hano...

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- A traffic accident in Vietnam's northern Bac Giang province killed three in a family, Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday. A car collided with a motorbike on Thursday evening in the province's Bac Giang city, killing thre...

BRUSSELS, 3rd June, 2022 (WAM) -- Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the EU, has met with EU Commissioner for ...

HANOI, 26th May, 2022 (WAM) -- All airline members of Vietnam Airlines Group, Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and VASO, will offer more tha...

HANOI, 19th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has reported 1,716 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including one imported case, taking the ...

HANOI, 13th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has successfully maintained fiscal, external and financial stability, Resident Representative of the In...

HANOI, 9th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Monday announced 2,269 new infections of COVID-19, according to the country's Ministry of Health. Ac...

HANOI, 28th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam attracted over US$10.8 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months of this ye...

HANOI, 27th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Arrivals entering Vietnam via all border gates will no longer have to fill and submit health declaration form...

HANOI, 19th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Tuesday announced 12,012 new infections of COVID-19, including one imported case, the lowest since...

HANOI, 15th April, 2022 (WAM) -- The Vietnamese Health Ministry has started issuing vaccine passports from today, 15th April, the Vietnam News...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

HANOI, 9th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Saturday reported 34,140 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, including two imported cases, the...